Coldstream Fine Art is pleased to present new work by Toronto-based painter Izaak Sacrebleu in his second solo exhibition, Victorian Revival. Drawing his subject matter for the most part from art and design history, Sacrebleu’s work serves as a dialogue between the tropes of contemporary painting and our generation’s tendency to dwell on nostalgic imageries. The result is a body of work that poses nostalgia as a symptom of the reluctance to our newfound excess of information.

Through conceptual play with language and personal symbolism, the bodies of work, Figure/Form and Small Talk, seek to illuminate possible structures of perception, while acknowledging the role of photography as an alternate, optical universe. Mara Gajic is a Toronto-based artist and graduate of OCAD University. Her image-based practice is driven by elements of performance to explore open narratives of self-construct, personal psychology and the quiet space between imagination and reality.